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Season KDE is KDE’s annual project to give helpers a more structured way to take part in KDE. It’s inspired by Summer of Code of course. Today I had the pleasure of launching the new Planet KDE website theme done by...

Kubuntu Wire seems to be down due to a server move so here's a Wire post on my blog written by Ilya Kowalewski as part of Google Code in... Hey there, we’ve got some news for you, here in Kubuntu. Recently, we released Kubuntu...

The Problem Regular readers will know of my problems with maintaining my property in Edinburgh. It’s a tenement flat building with 11 owners who all need to jointly maintain the communal areas. The problem is nobody except me does,...

Today I voted in the Catalunya independence voluntary non-binding consultation and I voted Si Si. I had been unsure what to vote and have spoken to many people to try to work out what is best. As I said in my previous post on the...

Here’s a nice project if you’re bored and wanting to help make a very visual difference to KDE, port the Breeze icon theme to LibreOffice. Wiki page up at community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/LibreOffice_Breeze All help...

Welcome to my blog on the updated jriddell.org, now featuring my personal blog (which has existed for about 15 years or at least before the word blog existed) together with my developer blog previously on blogs.kde.org. I’m at the...

Copied over from the previous version of my website.. According to Google, there is no reference to Ratchet Screwdriver, the legendary game played by young Quakers the world over (and, as far as I can tell, nobody else). How it can be that...

Recently I had the privilege of meeting Marc Van Der HS (or as I like to call him, Marco Polo, because everyone here is called either Marc or Jordi) in Barcelona. Despite this being a prosperous city on the sea front where people do a...

Next month Scotland has a referendum in whether to be an independent country. Here are the main reasons why I expect to vote Yes.. Staying United and Reducing Government All countries need to work with their neighbours, when Europe was a...